A review by lisaluvsliterature
Just Do It by Maxine Morrey

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This is my first book by this author, but it won’t be my last! I enjoyed all the characters, as well as the setting at a museum with an archeologist who kind of specialized in Egyptology, a science I had been a bit obsessed with when I was younger! 
Lizzie was someone I could totally identify with in a lot of ways. Her love of her job and what she did for her job. While I don’t always love my actual day to day work at my job because I don’t get to do what I love about my job, I do love my field of both library science now, as well as the science that I taught back when I was a classroom teacher. I’m also kind of like Lizzie in that I don’t always put myself out there or take chances. I had a best friend in college like Lizze’s best friend that made me do things outside my comfort zone. But I kind of retreated back into my introvertedness once she moved on with getting married and having kids. 
Enough about me though, let’s talk about this story. I loved how the two met, the one night stand bit, but how Finn kind of fell first. Except it was perfect how he pretended not to know her, I know it made her so mad and that was perfect to get her back wondering what was going on. With her best friend dating his friend, it threw them back together, not to mention the little surprise of him turning up to be her new office mate. Their connection was perfect and I loved it.
I could not see how in the world their perfect romance was going to hit any roadblocks though, and the author completely surprised me with how that happened. While it was a perfect way to and direction to take the story, I feel like it still seemed a bit out of character for Finn to take it as far as he did. If maybe we’d got some more of how he felt around the academics earlier in the story, that would have helped make that point for me maybe.
In the end I loved how it all came together and how the story ended. As I mentioned before, I hope that I can read more by this author in the future!